Further “proof” has emerged that the widely acclaimed Kimi no Na wa has ripped off Niji-Iro Hotaru, with the accuser seeming to be rather desperate to get others to condemn the profitable film – while others may yet state that the individual has too much time on their hands.
The accusatory video:
This time the scenery of a matsuri event has been accused of bearing “inexcusable” similarities, with most internet denizens seemingly still remaining unconvinced on the matter…
This is sad. But it’s life as usual in Japan. There’s plagiarism in music, in literature and, yes, in Academia.
I think the movie might have done a lot better then the animes it ripped off from..
Maybe this is why the director hates his own movie and tells us not to like it.
I have to wonder why it took them so long to notice the supposed plagiarism and post about it. Or how nobody else noticed until now.
I think the order+angle+timing of the scenes is pretty suspicious, although the original version has extra scenes in-between.
It’s possible Shinkai could have “copied” the scenes from memory, while forgetting where he originally saw those scenes.
Because it wasn’t released on BD earlier.
(This means the material to make up the comparisons wasn’t available unless you took a video cam into the cinema.)
Ripping off, plagiarism, tribute, whatever.
I genuinely enjoyed the movie. This wont change how i felt about it at all.